listen to the staff, the team, the camera men, everybody, the producers. have a very merry christmas. jesse waters filling in for lal >> good evening. i'm jesse waters in for laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from new york. thanks for watching the special "the trump agenda in 2018." that agenda got a huge start when the president signed the tax cut law into law this morning. >> we had the largest tax cuts in our history just approved. i was growing to wait for a formal signing in early january, but i watched the news this morning and they all said will he keep his promise? will he sign it by christmas? it's an honor to have you with us. we will sign this right now.

this is something i'm very proud of. great for our country, great for the american people. thank you all. >> looking forward to 2018, the tax cut could be a huge difference maker. right now democrats think they're poised for big gains in the mid-terms elections because of polls showing unpopularity of the. and the tax cut. but if those cuts make an already humming economy really take off, the president and the gop will be in the driver's seat come november. trump's team is ready to roll. he revealed one of his top priorities for early 2018 before heading to mar-a-largo for the christmas break. >> i really do believe we're going to have a lot of bipartisan work done and maybe we start with infrastructure. because i really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. we have spent $7 trillion in the middle east. not to mention all of the lives and the heart ache.

it's so sad. $7 trillion. it's time for us to rebuild our country. >> the president may timely get that bipartisan support. it would seem difficult for democrats of all people to argue about more domestic spending. so much to talk about. let's bring in our guests. fox news contributor and former adviser of the president, dr. sebastian gorka is in washington. and civil rights attorney, leo terrell is in los angeles, california. so doctor, i'll start with you. trump will have to run along with his allies in congress on reality. they can point to people's bank accounts and say there, that's the tax cut. democrats, on the other hand, are running on emotion and envy. they're saying the rich are bad and you're getting hosed. you think it will be hard for the republicans to outmessage? >> thanks for having me, first of all and congratulations on the speech you gave at turning point yesterday. >> thanks very much. >> quite a speech.

>> flattery will get you everywhere, doctor. >> i try. what are the democrats going to run on? we have 3% gdp growth rates already, 1.5 million jobs created. the lowest unemployment in 17 years. everybody that pays taxes will get a tax cut. what are they going to run on? i don't see the message. let's remind ourselves, jesse, president obama was the only president since the depression who never reached 3% gdp growth rate for one year for his whole eight years in office. 2018 will be incredible for the president, it's going to be incredible for all americans whether you voted for him or not, you will have an incredible 2018. >> so leo, the point is, the democrats have not taken any ownership of the economy. they didn't vote for the tax cuts. they've been against everything the president has been doing. so when the economy is humming along, they can't claim any credit. is that going to be difficult for the democrats to run against

a soaring economy? >> you know, i'm going to win this argument by using republican principles. today when president trump signed that bill, he threw republicans in blue states under the bus. they're the reason why republicans voted against this bill. let me tell the american public. americans in new york, california will be double taxed. now they'll have the disadvantage of paying not only a federal tax, but state and local tax. they have wiped out the interest deduction on mortgage. let me tell you how important that is. it's amazing how republicans like peter king, like darrell issa says this bill is not good. selling this bill will be tough. even your old fox new contributor, karl rove said, mr. president, stay in the white house. you're unpopular. right now president trump could not sell free groceries to the american public. >> i'm not so sure.

you make a good point about the new york and california people. i'm probably going to get hammered. i understand that. that's fine. but the majority of americans, at&t announcing, comcast announcing. they're showers working, hundreds of thousands, with $1,000 christmas checks as a result of the tax cut, dr. gorka. >> i know your guest like autocratic presidents like obama. the president can't help it if california, new york or connecticut is hosing the people that live there. that's the state's decision to do so. if you don't like it in new york and connecticut, you can do something about it as a voter. was in nevada this week. i was stomping for danny tarkanian. they hosted the event in the extreme manufacturing

headquarters. they make the forklift trucks. biggest manufacturer of these forklift trucks. last year, each of these cost $200,000. last year they sold 115. jesse, thanks to donald trump, thanks to the unleashing of the economy, extreme manufacturing has a back order of 900 units. that is the trump effect. >> let me just -- dr. gorka, answer these two questions. fundamental american principle. to be a homeowner, to buy a home. every american homeowner got hosed because the interest deduction on mortgage rates have been eliminated. more importantly, what happened to the old traditional fiscal conservative? spending cuts with tax cuts. where is paul ryan's video? all of a sudden we're going to forget about spending cuts? this tax bill adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit. where is the fiscal conserve tiff republicans -- >> gorka, you want to take this -- i'll take half of it.

on the agenda in 2018, they want a welfare reform will get done which will cut spending and people are predicting massive growth, which will bring in more revenue to the federal government. dr. gorka, you want to finish off that point? >> suddenly the left is worried about spending? president obama doubled the money owed in comparison to any other president before him. suddenly they care about how much money the federal government is wasting. let's be serious. >> dr. leo, you're using so many republican talking points. you might have to change your party. >> i'm just showing the hypocrisy about what the republicans are saying, this is so unlike republicans. more importantly, trump has just signed the execution warrant for every blue state congressional republican. because you know what? like karl rove, fox news contributor said --

>> karl rove is history. >> now he has no credibility. >> he's a rhino. >> dr. gorka -- >> he's a rhino? >> name calling. shame on you. >> let's lay off our own contributors for a second. the house is under siege. historically it flips when the other party is out of power. i get that. the dnc is broke. they only have about $4 million cash on hand. the rnc has about $45 million cash on hand. they have to fund raise more if they think they're going to win back anything. >> let me hit that out of the park. in alabama, in december, guess what? more democrats came out in december of 2018 than the 2014 mid-term election. those are numbers telling you that democrats will create a storm in 2018. they're going to take over the mid-term election. there's people that are upset with this president. can't sell groceries, can't sell free groceries because you know what? he's alienated the american

public with his rhetoric. >> dr. gorka, go ahead. >> the only people upset with this president are the people that don't understand why america chose him on november 8 and who know that if this economy keeps on trucking, that they're in trouble. the democrat party is now predicated on one thing, jesse and it's sad. it's predicated on this president failing and on this economy failing. that's un-american. to wish that people don't get tax breaks, to wish that you shouldn't get a bonus from at&t. why would you do that? everybody's boat can rise. everybody's boat can float. but no, i'm going to have to vote for the other person losing money. >> you keep talking about those bonuses. those -- we were promised jobs, not bonuses. bonuses are one-time give-aways. >> what about jobs? we brought millions. >> bring me back in 12 months and let's see the impact --

>> there's been 2 million jobs created since the president came into office. wages will go up as a result of this and jobs. the thing hasn't even kicked in yet. are you willing to give it a chance? >> more than a million people, more than a million people in less than a year have been taken off food stamps. suckling on the government teeth and come back to work. how can you not be thankful that that is happening? >> okay. you're changing the subject. i want to stick -- >> you say jobs. >> you're making a massive assumption that she's corporations are not going to buy back their stock. it's to their incentive to buy back their stocks. the executives will get huge bonuses. i studied this. i'll tell you right now, you can't guarantee -- >> leo, you're the only one that can complain about american workers getting $1,000 bonus checks. how is that a bad thing? why can't you say it's good? >> i want jobs.

i don't want tip money. i want a job. >> okay. >> i want a job. promised jobs. >> leo, you must be living large. i never tipped a g. >> you have to live in the real world. i'm sorry. >> let's not confuse a bonus with a job. let's not confuse a bonus with a job. >> i think let's see how it plays outs. leo, tipping $1,000? i need to come work for you. >> bring me back in 12 months and let's see how many jobs were created. >> all right. i have to go. thanks very much. >> merry christmas. >> while trump keeps winning, the russia investigation is running into turbulence. we'll get the inside scoop from a congressman that was just grilled behind closed doors. why the spotlight may be shifting to hillary clinton. stay tuned.

>> jesse: with special counsels russia's probe will return next year. but now the fbi is coming under mounting scrutiny and for unexpected reasons. fbi director andrew mccabe wendt behind closed doors for the

russia probe. it's behind the hillary clinton e-mail scandal that is coming into sharp focus. mack yates joins us from floor and his meeting with mccabe yesterday. welcome, congressman. what happened behind closed doors and what are you allowed to say? >> this is the first of a series of confidential witnesses with key testimony. i can't share with you the specific questions or anses. i can share with you my reactions to them. i can tell you three things that have been confirmed for me. first, hillary clinton absolutely got special treatment. her process departed from the standard process most americans would face. she received the special treatment because she was a candidate for president. no other reason. third thing. there were people in the highest levels of government doing everything possible to make sure hillary clinton didn't face consequences.

some of those very people have now migrated over to the mueller probe and persecuting the president of the united states without a valid basis. that's why the work we're doing is so important. >> jesse: very interesting. so we know that hillary got special treatment from the tarmac meeting to riding an exonerating letter before she was exonerated. at this point what are you going to do about it? >> we have to change the laws so this can never happen again. we have to find out whether or not some of the bribes paid to the clinton foundation are disrupting the policies and priorities of the united states on an on going basis. until we have a thorough investigation of the bribes that the clinton foundation took and the actions that fell as a consequence of those bribes, i fear we won't truly know the depth of the corruption and the

last administration. we've got the change the law so that never again can we have a circumstance where someone gets special treatment because of their political status or because they're a candidate for high office. that is not the blind lady justice that we promised the american people in this country under our contusion, jesse. >> i agree with that 100%. so are you calling for a new or second special counsel to investigate hillary and the foundation? >> for five months now, over 20 members of the judiciary committee have been calling for a second special counsel to investigate the clinton foundation, the e-mail server and the handling of that process. what is so troubling is that the attorney general has been sitting on his hands despite the fact that we've had these calls for a second special counsel. it's a double standard when you have the special counsel that has a limit budget, limitless authority persecuting the president and not looking at the crimes from the real criminals. >> jesse: so can i ask you? i know you're not allowed to say

everything. did you ask mccabe about that meeting where it was the fbi agent who hated trump and his mistress in this meeting and they talked about protecting the country from a trump presidency and taking out an insurance policy if trump was elected president? did you ask about that? >> well, i can't go into the specific questions asked and the answers provided. i will say when you look at the commentary from the mainstream media, they're spinning. they have flow idea how to explain it. >> i'm going to assume that you asked about that. because that is huge. i would assume that you did. now, this is just breaking. i don't know if you know about it. it looks like james baker, who was the top lawyer in the fbi, was just reassigned. turns out, they found out he had contact with this left wing outfit mother jones and david korn. two weeks later, they break the dossier story. seems really suspicious.

>> yeah, i don't think james baker is a lawyer in this fact pattern anymore. i believe mr. baker is a witness. because he's a witness, i think he's very well may be one of the next people called before one of these committees conducting a fact-based investigation. certainly we have had at the very highest levels of the fbi and the department of justice a number of contaminating events that erode the american people's confidence in these institutions. >> jesse: seemed like the more people investigate, the democrats look guilty or corruption, not trump. we'll see. anything can happen. congressman gates, thanks for your service. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: with the key players coming under distribute any, could the russia probe backfire on democrats that were so sure it would sink trump? up next, what to expect in 2018.

>> jesse: welcome back to "the ingraham angle" special. the trump agenda in 2018. democrats still think the ongoing russia investigation could be their ace in the hole against the president next year. it could boomerang on them. a "wall street journal" poll released shows the public is souring on mueller. his negative numbers jumped from 11 to 21%. and no wonder, with all the bitter anti-trump bias revealed among his top investigators and key players at the fbi in justice department. some democrats are stuck in denial. >> so when special counsel mueller was appointed, republicans praised him. republicans like newt gingrich and others. now they're attacking him. the only thing has changed, two

guilty pleas and two additional indictments. so they're afraid of the facts that mueller is uncovering. so that's not a good justification to smear his team. >> jesse: so evidence is not justification for questioning the probe? are you kidding me? let's examine that with political analysts dan bongino in palm city and in washington, former senate leader capri cafaro. and this is like yelling at a coach to get a better call. i don't think there's anything criticizing the mueller investigation if they're doing something wrong, do you? >> no. why should we criticize? let's walk through what happened here. okay? you had a man at the top. jim comey who admitted to initiating, trying to start this special counsel by leaking information to the press. you had number 2, andy mccabe,

whose wife was running as a democrat in the state of virginia and taking money from the clintons. you had peter strzok talking with his mistress about the insurance policy in case donald trump is elected. let's get this straight. we're not supposed to ask questions about any of that? that's only in the liberal bizarre fantasy land. in the real world, you're darn right we're going to ask questions. >> jesse: so capri, the congressman says the republicans like mueller and now they're changing their tunes. they're hiring a bunch of clinton donors and lawyers and having to fire guys from trying to talk trash about trump. it makes sense why his numbers are going down. it's his fault. >> i mean i think you're talking about two separate issues. one is are republicans in congress souring on bob mueller or is the american public souring on him. at the top of the segment, you

mentioned that "wall street journal" poll. >> jesse: right. >> what that looks like people don't know who bob mueller is. if you have 21% of the people saying that they have an unfavorable and 28% saying favorable, that means less than 50% of america has any idea who bob mueller is. >> jesse: i would agree with that. if i asked the first ten people who he is, maybe three or four would know. does that say that the public doesn't care about the russia story and has nothing to do with jobs, wages or national security? >> yeah. i'm personally glad that looney on thes democrats like the ones in congress are wasting their time on this conspiracy nonsense. while that happens, we've been dumping red tape, appointing great stellar conservative justices. we've been cutting taxes.

so listen, adam schiff, knock your day out. >> trump -- they're both from california, right? >> yes. >> jesse: exactly. the people out there in california really dislike the republican party. but let me get back to you, capri. it seems like mueller is basically the democrat candidate for president. it's the only person that can stop donald trump's re-election and the democrats are putting their eggs in the mueller basket. if he clears everybody else after this, they have nothing. >> look, i think there's a camp of democrats out there that hope for the worst, that okay, if president trump fires bob mueller, which he said he's not going to do and he does it, it opens the door for obstruction of justice and they can go after impeachment and -- >> jesse: i think the democrats want president trump fire mueller because that's all they

talk about. >> there's a camp out there that thinks that. another camp and i belong to the other camp that believes the best path for democrats is to show they're the adults in the room, to show that they can govern. i'm from ohio. we care about jobs. certainly we want to make sure the russia investigation is done and the american public deserves answers in a fair manner about that issue, about what happened in the 2016 election. ultimately the democrats, the way we win, is when we turn people out actually as we have done in some of the more recent elections in 2017. we need to have a message to show what we offer to the american public. >> yeah, i don't really know what the democrat message is on the border, on isis. i do know that they think trump is a traitor. that's about it. go ahead. >> come to ohio. i think that there will be some folks -- >> jesse: i'm just talking about, you know, congressional democrats. go ahead. >> no, jesse, the democrats message in 2018, i love what they're going to run on. give us more money, give us your

healthcare and send your kid to a crap school that is failing. that's the message. by the way, we're going to continue to investigate a trump russia investigation, which by the way is produced zero. zero. a doughnut. the absence of value. produced no evidence of russian collusion at all. >> jesse: interesting, capri. so this started off as a collusion investigation or an obstruction investigation. i mean, when -- we just looked at the segment before. there's more evidence of democrat collusion or democrat obstruction than there is anything that donald trump or his campaign has done, right? >> i don't know who you're asking that question to. i think again -- >> jesse: you, capri. >> the american public deserves answers regardless of party. >> jesse: i agree with that. >> so you know, if there's smoke and fire, you know, we need to have an impartial investigation regardless of the party. >> jesse: i think we'll wait to see how it plays out. could take months, could take years.

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>> jesse: welcome back to this

"the ingraham angle" special. the trump agenda in 2018. one of the most burning issues next year will be what kind of daca deal the president he strike with congress. many conservatives oppose amnesty for the dreamers. but will the president use a daca deal as leverage to get the rest of the agenda like ending chain migration and building the wall? let's bring in our guests. amy tarkanian is here and las vegas film maker, clay cane is here in new york. clay, we'll start with you. schumer and pelosi getting hammered by the left for not using the daca deal's leverage to shut down the government. you think that is justified? >> i think it's complicated. i understand why folks to the left are upset. we need more time. the truth of the matter is, this is all started, madness, because trump is so anti-immigrant.

>> jesse: whoa -- >> trump -- >> jesse: he's married to an immigrant. >> he's had a whole platform against immigration and him -- >> jesse: illegal immigration. >> illegal immigration. even folks that are legal like the horrible terrorist attack that happened here in new york city. he is using that as an excuse to build his wall policy. >> jesse: so you mean end chain migration and the lottery. >> he was a legal immigrant. >> jesse: right. through a bad system. >> it's part of our system. >> jesse: and he wants to change it. >> the point is that trump has really caused this debasing of our culture when it comes to immigrants in this country, illegal immigrants. if it wasn't for his disgusting rhetoric that we would have this implosion within the democratic party. it's going to take time. >> jesse: amy, set him straight. i think the president wants to save the dreamers. that's why he cut this deal in the fall with crying chuck and

nancy, correct? >> absolutely. you know, it's not disgusting rhetoric. we have somebody that wants to protect the u.s. citizens. we have somebody that wants to make sure that these dreamers are taking care of correctly. we're talking about human lives. you can't just sit there and put people who have -- >> what does correctly mean? >> -- who are here legally and doing things correctly. you're not superior to those u.s. citizens doing the right thing. >> i'm curious to know what correctly means. with all due respect, amy, amy and her husband paraded their political career on being anti-immigrant. her -- >> we're not anti-immigrant at all. >> her husband went as far to say that hispanics in nevada should be profiled just in case somebody -- >> jesse: let's leave her husband out of it. he's not on the show. let's leave the husband out of it. out of respect. >> so they thought that was unconstitutional in nevada. so she's only for the

constitution if it does ant ply to -- >> jesse: clay -- >> clay, we're not anti-immigrant. >> you want racial profiling -- >> jesse: let her finish. >> you came here correctly. so we're for making sure that people -- >> racial profiling. >> we're a nation of laws. if you have -- >> we are a nation of laws. racial profiling is unconstitutional. >> jesse: we're getting sid tracked here. clay, so the republican party puts building a wall which includes saving the dreamers, will democrats vote for that? >> building a wall is -- the majority of folks here -- >> jesse: will they vote for it? >> the majority of people that are here illegally are a result of overstayed visas. the idea of the wall is ridiculous. he's not informed on how immigration works. a wall isn't going to do anything. if you want to have stricter immigration laws, that's fine.

to kick out when it comes to daca -- i interviewed somebody that was an illegal when he was applied for college -- >> jesse: clay, you're misinformed about what the president wants to do with the dreamers. >> i think you are, too. >> jesse: the president says he wants to save the dreamers and make sure they're legal and not kicked out. that's why he cut the deal with nancy and crying chuck. let's move on. i want to get to another topic. we have a report that just came out, amy, that says i think 90% or something like that of 92% of the inmates in federal prison, they -- a lot of those people are illegal immigrants. why are that there first of all and second of all, it's not just because they have overstayed their visas or because they got picked up on an immigration visa. a lot of it is through felonies. >> sure. well, you know, the interesting

thing is, you mentioned the wall. you know, i think since election day took place, you've now had roughly the flow of 2/3s of illegal immigrants actually -- it's cut down by 2/3s. that's without the wall even being built. that's with a president who with his rhetoric is very strong, with his tone -- >> jesse: it's a verbal wall. trump put up a verbal wall. i understand. the rhetoric is important. what do you think about that? you have to be happy there's less illegal immigration. >> illegal immigration has gone down. >> jesse: you think that's a good thing? >> i do think it's a good thing. >> jesse: you're not pro illegal immigration? >> no, i'm not saying anybody should come in this country. you should come in legally. >> jesse: so you want to prevent people from coming here legally. >> yes, absolutely. >> jesse: so would a wall help

do that? >> first of all -- >> jesse: why not? it stops people from crossing. >> first of all, if you were fully informed, the majority of folks are here are because of overstayed visas. >> jesse: there's millions of illegal aliens that cross -- >> a wall is insanely expensive. we already have a horrible tax bill -- >> jesse: when have democrats have ever cared about the cost? >> it's going to give us more of a deficit. i don't think we need a wall. i don't think we need to kick out people that are already here. every part of american life is affected by immigration. >> jesse: it's funny. we have to run. it's just funny that the only time the democrats care about government spending is when it comes to protecting the borders. guys, i have to run. >> merry christmas. >> jesse: merry christmas. while the fate of the wall and many issues are in the air, the muscular trump foreign policy is scoring big wins overseas. we'll look at his foreign policy challenges in 2018 and including

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ingraham angle special. china, afghanistan, re-visiting the iran nuke deal and pursuing peace in the middle east. the real flash point is likely to be the brewing confrontation with north korea. trump got a big win and celebrated with this tweet. "the united nations security council voted 15-0 on more sanctions. the world wants peace, not death." >> i saw nikki haley yesterday actually threatening like a mob boss, threatening member states of the united nations, you be with us on this nonbinding resolution or else we will always remember and we may yank humanitarian aid out of the

mouths of the most truly disadvantaged on the planet. >> jesse: mob boss. that's how the left sees a strong woman in charge and making clear to other countries that the u.s. will no longer turn the other cheek? let's bring in our guests. jim hanson from the center for security policy and david tafore from the state department. i want to start with the sanctions that we just slapped on north korea, cuts fuel imports by 90%, forces 10,000 north korean workers that are working in other countries to return back that really dries up their hard currency and tightens up north korean shipping inspections. china and russia went along with that. is that tough enough? >> it's about time. i think we're on last chances for kim jong-un. at in point, we've done all the strategic patience as obama called his policy that we can afford to. so president trump said you have one chance to do this. russia, stop dealing on the

black market with them. china stop propping them up and let's see if there's any chance at all that diplomacy and sanctions can stop him from his nuclear ambitions. if it doesn't, the world knows that president trump means what he says and there will be consequences. consequences that will leave parts of north korea as smoking rubble. >> you think little rocketman will get the message or not? >> i hope so. this is a victory for the world and for the u.s., which led this security council resolution and pushed it through. as you mentioned, 15-0. with all five permanent members supporting it. >> jesse: the mob boss, nikki haley gets some credit? >> well, you know, you're mixing up two different things. the security counsel resolution, the action on jerusalem -- >> jesse: i know. she's still the u.n. ambassador. >> two different things and her actions were different in each

case. i applaud her actions on north korea. she took leadership there. a big success. and the jerusalem thing, it's right to criticize her tactic as little bit. the u.s. has every right to move its embassy. that wasn't a positive thing with respect to advancing the peace process between israel and palestine. and i wish the president had a plan for that and i wish nikki haley was talking about that rather than just moving our embassy. that would be more productive. >> jesse: he has some sort of plan. isn't he sending jared kushner over there? he will straighten everything out, right? >> he's got a plan. it's already in play. the big change has been the new crown prince, mohammed bin salman of saudi arabia will be an ally in this as opposed to an obstacle. the big step he took saying we're going to stop this delusion that hasn't helped anyone any time of pretending the capitol of israel is not jerusalem and we're going to put our embassy where it belongs. sending a reality check to the

palestinians and to everyone who has been helping them obstruct peace for all of these years. a great start to these negotiations and the plan will follow on from there. >> david, another new development this week, which was interesting, i think the president wants to send lethal arms to our ally in ukraine, something the obama administration never wanted to do for our ally. they just wanted to send food. that's pretty tough. when it comes to confronting russia. trump is a big russia puppet. why is he acting so tough on russia all of a sudden? >> i can't agree with you more. this is substantial. i applaud the trump policy for doing this. remember, it was the trump campaign that pushed for changing the republican platform in july at the republican convention. and they removed the provision for arming the ukrainians from the platform. so now he's reversed that and that's a positive.

but there's very little else that he's done to take a stance against russia. he still seems to support putin and russia at every chance that he has. so i would like to see a statement from the president saying that russia should come -- should get out of eastern ukraine, that russia should not have taken crimea and the u.s. will not tolerate expansionism and the u.s. will stand with their nato allies. we haven't heard that from president trump. but i agree with you, this change is welcome. >> jesse: i agree with you somewhat. but to say that trump has been soft on russia. he sent about 50 tomahawks missiles in their friends's back yard when he nailed al-assad. i don't think he's been that soft on russia. >> he hasn't done anything else since syria to take a stance

against russia. he's moved towards russia's policy in syria, pulled back support for the moderate forces that are fighting against russia, iran and assad. >> jesse: and he wiped out isis on the battlefield in iraq. that's a good thing. jim, the last word. >> i think when president trump managed to go ahead and, as you mentioned, take out a russian air field in syria, while ordering chocolate cake with the chinese president, that sent a pretty good message. right now what we need is a way to get to peace. if he's going to make a deal with the russians to make that happen, good. better that than more fighting. >> jesse: we have to run. merry christmas to both of you. >> merry christmas. >> back at you. >> jesse: vice president mike pence delivers a special holiday message to the troops in afghanistan after this.

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including 11,000 troops still stationed in afghanistan. since they can't go home for the holidays, vice-president pence came to them on a secret trip under heavy security to deliver a special message. >> before i left the oval office yesterday, i asked the president if he had a message for our troops in afghanistan. he looked at me without hesitation and said tell theme love him. on behalf of your commander and chief, gratitude for your service and sacrifice. give yourselves a round of applause. >> pence said it's often overlooked. thanking the troops for being world's greatest force for good. we thank them too. merry christmas to all of the men and women serving our country overseas. lastly, tomorrow my show, i will

spend with the former white house communications director and hosting fox news all american new year's special. kennedy will be my partner in crime. that's all the time we have for tonight. from all of us, have a merry christmas. shannon bream and the fox news @ night team are next. good night from ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [national anthem]

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>> president trump gave a fist bump when he stepped off air force one palm beach the signature issue of the campaign now codified into law. >> everything in here is really tremendous things for businesses, for people, for the middle class. >> he called out democrats again for opposing the bill but he did project optimism that both sides will work together in the new year. >> democrat already regret it. you know, they have their typical thing it's for the rich. they know that's not true. i really do believe we will have a lot of bipartisan work done. >> eric jamison may have been planning a christmas attack on pier 39. >> the attorney general is